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The rules that a chess player here might not be familiar with.

1. En Passant Rule
En passant rule with chess,this is an official rule. Many starting out player are not familiar with this
http://www.wisegeek.com/in-chess-what-is-en-passant.htm"]http://www.wisegeek.com/in-chess-what-is-en-passant.htm

2. 50 move rule draw]
If you did 50 straight moves without captures you can claim draw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule

3. Three moves repetition]
If a position was repeated 3 times times a player can claim a draw.
http://www.netplaces.com/chess-basics/ending-the-game/three-position-repetition.htm

Below are some basic important endgame knowledge novice must learn to improve their game

Two Rook Mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1aeokFZo9k

Rook and King vs Lone King Mate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeMYBXEhCL0

Queen vs Pawn Near Promotion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCwZAw8m85A

King and Lone Pawn vs King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UcVihtK9M

Bishop and Rook Pawn Draw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPfTQFdY2U [/QUOTE]

To improve at chess you need to study endgames, tactics and strategy. Starting out player should just familiarize their selves with the general opening chess principles.

Why do we need to study tactics?

At below master level the common reason for defeats are blunders. Sample of these blunders are losing your piece without getting something in return, or you did not notice you will be mated in a few moves, but you failed to see the right defensive moves. Often at below master level players fails to recognize opportunity to gain material advantage or mate by tactical means .Studying tactics helps lessen your blunder and improves your tactical skills. Sample of chess tactics are pin, fork and skewer. You can try solving chess tactics problems at chess tempo.com.

Below are basic tactics introduction
http://chesstactics.org/
http://chess.about.com/od/tipsforbeginners/ss/BasicCheckmates.htm

Why do we need to study positional play?

What if you can't find a tactic that wins you material or mate a king? What should you do? Where should you move your pieces. Should you exchange pieces? This is where you strategic understanding comes in. We study positional play so that if we can't find a tactics we know what to do.

Basic strategy concepts below
http://www.thechesswebsite.com/good-bad-bishop/
http://www.thechesswebsite.com/chess-outposts/

Why do we need to study endgame?

Endgame is period in chess in which you can now bring out your king, because it is already safe from threats. It is no use if you have a rook and king against a lone king, if you don't know how to mate with it. Or it is no use if you have an extra pawn (and the position is winning) if you can't convert it to a win. Improving endgame skills is very important in chess. At below master level many positions that should be a win turned into a draw or defeat because of poor endgame skills.

Windmill Chess Tactics

There's chess thread in here!? I never knew. Enko want to play?

Do you have a chess.com account?

Here are some tactical motifs that every starting up players should know.

Chess Tactics- Windmill



Chess Tactics: Deflection



Chess Tactics: Decoy



Chess Tactics: X Ray



Chess Middle Game Tactic: Bishop Sacrifice

Magnus Carlsen will defend his World Chess Championship crown in New York City. The date is November 11.


http://www.businessinsider.com/magnus-carlsen-defned-world-chess-championship-in-new-york-city-2016-11

https://worldchess.com/nyc2016/

Here is a good chess tactics puzzle app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lrstudios.android.chess_problems&hl=tl

chess fork,pin and skewer - Useful Chess

http://www.usefulchess.com/tactics/forkpin.htm

will check out those videos

Interactive:
https://chesstempo.com/tactical-motifs.html
https://chesstempo.com/positional-motifs.html

This is one the best tactical theme introduction for beginners. Any beginners who will study it will get an improvement.

http://www.chessfornovices.com/whatarechesstactics.html

Norway Chess Classic kicks off on May 27 in Stavanger.

The competition scheduled to run until June 8 features as strong a competition as usual. Current title holder, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will be playing too.

His competitors this year are Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Fabiano Caruana (USA), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Viswanathan Anand (India), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Wesley So (USA), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), and Ding Liren (China).

If players earn equal amount of points, the winner will be decided by a tie-break.


http://sport.mediamax.am/en/news/chess/28459

Lichess has a very good interactive lessons for those who are learning chess for the first time.

https://lichess.org/learn#/

Chess Strategies- Trading Part 1





The above basic videos are very instructive. Many new players do not know the proper trades.